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rwooduk
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Hi,
I am having to refresh my oscilloscope knowledge and am confused about one last function generator setting... Burst period.
If I have 1 cycle at say 700 kHz it is 1.43us. If I set number of cycles to 10 then that is 10 * 1.43us = 14.3us time. This is my ON burst.
So what is the burst period setting? How can I set say a 10ms burst if my ON 'burst' is already 28.6us as defined by my number of cycles and the frequency?
It is defined in the manual as "the time from the start of one burst to the start of next burst". But then in my example, if I set a burst period of 20ms, that means it would be ON for 14.3us and OFF for (20ms - 14.3us), which is a huge OFF time before the next burst. Is that correct?
I'm sure this is simple but I'm getting confused with the setting.
Thanks for any advice.
I am having to refresh my oscilloscope knowledge and am confused about one last function generator setting... Burst period.
If I have 1 cycle at say 700 kHz it is 1.43us. If I set number of cycles to 10 then that is 10 * 1.43us = 14.3us time. This is my ON burst.
So what is the burst period setting? How can I set say a 10ms burst if my ON 'burst' is already 28.6us as defined by my number of cycles and the frequency?
It is defined in the manual as "the time from the start of one burst to the start of next burst". But then in my example, if I set a burst period of 20ms, that means it would be ON for 14.3us and OFF for (20ms - 14.3us), which is a huge OFF time before the next burst. Is that correct?
I'm sure this is simple but I'm getting confused with the setting.
Thanks for any advice.
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